The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-27
the Democracy of Milwaukee, in Sep

the Democracy of Milwaukee, in Sep
TENDER, 1854?
Il said would not denounce the ad
ministration of Abraham Lincoln 70
casual acts of wrong-I would not de
nounce 1t because its members haVt
erred in judgment-but denounce il
because l believe it has entered upon
settled course of policy dangerous t.
the welfare of the country. 1t pro
poses to put down the rebellion by two
powers-the power of policy and the
/ power of the army"
Now, Mr.. President, was this politi
cal action of the Democratic party 3
part and parcel of the rebellion? Was
| 1t in concert and cooperation with the
Confederate army under a plan agreed
and understood between the Confeder-
ate generals in the field and theiI
Democratic allies in the Chicago con-
ventiOn?
Let us allow Mr. Seymour to stand
aside for moment and have General
Joe Johnson take the stand.
General johnson will now please
state why Atlanta was defended with
such desperation, and whether or not
political considerations entered into
and formed part of the campaign?
Yes, in my book entitled, Joe John
sons Narration of the War" l made
this plain in the following words:
1.-THE importance to the Confderacy of de-
feating the enterprise against Atlanta was not
to be measured by military consequences
alone. Political considerations were also in
Yolved and added much to the interest of that
campaign The Northern Democrats had prO-
nounced the management of the war fail
ure; and declared against its being continued,
was TO turn upon the question OF immediate
peace OF continues war. In all the earlier
fishing to the Northern people most exagger-
ated ideas of the military value of Atlanta
and that ii was to be taken, and that its capt
ure would terminate the war. If Sherman
had been fooled, these agitations would have
caused great eXagReration OF the consequences
of his failure, would have strengthened the
peace party so much, perhaps, as TO have ena-
bled 1t TO carry the Presidential election,
mediate Close"
1 have a painful array of names of
men not less conspicuous as leaders of
the Democracy and accredited expound-
ers of its faith, but they need not be
called to sustain the charge of conspir-
acy and treason against the Democratic
party before and during the war.
For proof that the Democratic party
continued independent. conspiring and
REASONABLE after the war, need
hardly do more than quote from let
ter written on June 30th, 1858, by
Frank +. Blair. He was at that time
a candidate for nomination to the Office
of Vice President, and says:
II leave it to you to determine on con-
sultation with my friends from Mis-
souri,, whether my name shall be sub
mitted to the Democratic convention,
and submit the following as what 1
consider the real and only issue in the
cOntest:''
1.-The reconstruction policy of the
Radicals will be complete before the
next election; the states so long eX-
cluded will have been admitted, negro
suffrage established, and the carpet
baggers installed in their seats in both
branches of Congress. There is no
possibility of changing the political
character of the Senate, even if the
Democrats elect their President and
majority of the popular branch of Con-
greSS. We cannot, therefore, undo the
plan of radical reconstruction by Con-
gressiOnal action; the Senate will con-
tinue a bar to its repeal. Must we
submit to it? How can it be over
thrown! 1t can only be OverthroWn by
the authority of the executive, who is
sworn to maintain the Constitution,
and who will fail to do his duty if he
allows the Constitution to perish under
series of Congressional enactments
which are palpable violations of its
fundamental principles.
There is but one way to restore the
government and the constitution, and
that is for the PreSident-elect to de-
clare these acts null and void, compel
the army to undo its usurpations at
the South, dispense the carpet-bag
State Government and elect Senators
and Representatives. The House of
Representatives will contain a major
ity of Democrats from the North, and
thnU will admit the
elected by the white people of the
South, and with the cooperation of the
President it will not be difficult to COM
pei the Senate to submit once more to
the obligations of the constitution.
l assert-shall we submit to the usur
pations by which the government has
been Overthrown, or shall we exert our
selves for its full and complete restOra
tion?''
Democrats denounce us for reviving
the animosities of the war by reference
to history. They claim that the results
of the war concluded every element of
antagonism and of treason; that sub
mission and loyalty was as universal
the hour after Lees surrender as reSis-
tance and treason had been before.
They tell us that peace Teigns only
when it is disturbed by the whipping
of the bloody shirt" in the tempest of
party rancor.
Yet here, long years after the war,
we have words of discomfort. revolt
and revolution not less alarming than
any preceding the war. They are so
plain, so threatening as to recall to us
the clash of armS-the shrek of death,
upon the CORY field. They tell us of a
new rebellion; the homes again dark
ened by widows weeds, and the air
heavy with orphans signs. And these
a. =
the National Democratic party.
Their authenticity cannot be denied;
their import cannot be misunderstood.
They art not the mere utteranceS of an
individual, but the binding declara-
lions of the party which assumes the
right to hold the destinies of the nation
in trust. They were written before
the meeting of national convention
by a gentleman who desired to place
himself and his views before that con-
vention for its support. His doctrines
their voluntary adoption of his nOmi-
nation, He was made a standard
bearer, and they were Incorporated in
the following explicit words: I'VE re-
gard the reconstruction acts (So-called)
as usurpation and unconstitutional,
revolutionary and void. !"
The Democratic party of the past is
the party of to-day. 1t has gained
nothing in wisdom; nothing in patriot
ism; nothing in love for the flag of the
free they sought to barter for the rag
of the slave.
For these reasons entreat the loyal
men, and there are many of them who
wore the Union uniform and who have
been deceived and misled into a re-
sumption of party relations, broken by
the enlistment, to come out from the
camp of the enemy, and take post
where they belong, with the old COM
rades in Republican ranks.
Young men, need not now tell you
''why a young man should be Re
publican" You find reasons ample in
the records of two great parties open
to your reading.
To be Republican is to be factor
in the grand army which is the Gus
todian of all faith and every hope of
the race in government of the peo-
pie, by the people, for the people,
A Beau Ideal of FAIRLY Medicine.
A remedy which promptly and COM
pIetalv relieves aitmants of auoh aOno